ROBINSON: NSA should focus on data quality, not quantity

4:19 PM,
Jan. 6, 2014

Written by

EUGENE ROBINSON

President Obama's anticipated reform of the National Security Agency's practices needs to go beyond ending the mass surveillance of innocent Americans' phone calls. He should force the agency to think less about the quantity of information it gathers and more about the quality.

Obama should ignore the choir of apologists singing in lamentation over the beastly way the NSA is being treated. I refer to voices such as that of Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who on Monday accused Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. - and, by extension, all the agency's critics - of "trying to create this paranoia among Americans that ...